CEO @OneAsset_io. 🏡Building compliant RWA rails for real estate, yield, and access. 💪🏻On a mission to make finance borderless, structured, and onchain.
My Party Popper Question to @saylor :
“When do you think the bear market will come?”
🧠 His answer:
“There’s no bear market. There’s the bull market… and there is pre-bull market.”
🤪Bullish mindset only.
📈🔥 #BitcoinConference2025#Michaelsaylor
Forbes published a piece on why tokenized real estate still hasn't taken off.
The way I see it, the industry built it backwards. It asked what could go onchain before asking what an investor actually needs to trust the asset.
Those are different questions. The first gives you a token. The second gives you enforceable ownership, compliant transfer, real servicing, and a credible way out of a position.
Most projects shipped the first and presented it as the second.
What is changing now is not the technology. It is hoped that the missing parts, legal structure, and clearer regulations are starting to arrive.
That foundation is less exciting than a mint button, which is exactly why it went unbuilt for so long.
Link to article below👇
Regulatory clarity, set early, is what draws talent. Talent is what matures the infrastructure. A lot of what the market assumes is still years away is already here.
What’s the biggest shift in digital assets?
We're moving past the retail sandbox of memes and NFTs into an era of deep institutional execution. From legacy banks entering the fold to tokenizing Real-World Assets, the new financial paradigm is being deployed right now. 🚀
#DaosDigitalAssetsWeek #Tokenization #RWAs #TradFi #DubaiFinance
Real estate is a long-horizon asset class. Hold periods stretch decades.
The reason to build tokenization infrastructure in Dubai isn't that the rules are loose. It's that the framework is meant to last as long as the assets it supports.
Some of the most useful conversations in digital assets are not the loudest ones.
At the VASPs Roundtable during Digital Assets Week, the discussion moved beyond speed and launches.
The focus was trust, accountability, governance, and what it takes for digital assets to mature into real financial markets.
Thank you, @Daoshub and @TheMENAFintech for having me.
16 years ago, 10,000 BTC bought two pizzas.
At the time, it was just a transaction.
Today, it is remembered as the moment crypto proved it could move value in the real world.
The next chapter is bigger than pizza.
It is real estate, credit, funds, treasuries, and the infrastructure that brings real-world assets onchain.
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day 🍕₿
The growth of tokenized RWAs is worth paying attention to.
But the number itself is only one part of the story.
What matters next is whether these assets can operate with the standards real capital expects: clear ownership, compliant access, reliable settlement, and ongoing reporting.
That is where tokenization starts becoming infrastructure.
Tokenization is getting closer to a major turning point.
→ Clearer regulations
→ More institutional access
→ Growing real-world adoption
→ DTCC & Nasdaq integration pathways
The next 12–18 months could be defining.
Big milestone for the RWA market.
The real question now is what happens after assets come onchain.
Over the next 12–18 months, we’ll start to see which tokenized assets become useful in institutional workflows, and which remain mostly headline numbers.
That is where the real test begins.
Looking forward to joining this roundtable at Daos Digital Assets Week.
Dubai’s virtual assets market is entering a more serious phase, where regulation, infrastructure, and real-world implementation have to move together.
Thank you, @Daoshub for having me.
Web3 innovation means nothing without survival. 🛡️
Tomorrow is Day 3 of Daos Digital Assets Week: Regulation & Security Deep Dive, hosted alongside our Strategic Ecosystem Partner, @TheMENAFintech. 🤝
Check out the graphic below for our VASPs Roundtable lineup breaking down real-world enforcement and onchain compliance. 📉
Seats are almost entirely gone! Apply right now for tomorrow:
🔗 https://t.co/dr1KbE7aLv
#DaosHub #MFTA #VASP #Web3 #DubaiWeb3
This week, our Head of Market Assurance, Sean McHugh sat down with @Bloomberg to unpack the foundational pillars that position Dubai as a leading jurisdiction for virtual asset regulation - spanning regulatory clarity and supervisory frameworks to the development of trusted market infrastructure and the facilitation of responsible institutional participation.
Many thanks to Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec for the great discussion.
Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/bYfln91aYH
#VARA
Last week was one of those days that remind me why I chose this.
On stage at REAL, talking about what tokenization requires to work in the real world. Not the whitepaper. The one that has to survive legal scrutiny, regulatory review and investor due diligence.
The people in that room are building.
The conversations were solid. The work continues.
Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, but access to premier property has historically been limited by geography, capital requirements and liquidity constraints.
OneAsset’s vision is simple:
Make commercial real estate more accessible, transparent, and borderless through onchain ownership.
Nobody pitches a tokenization platform by talking about transfer agents.
But transfer agents, settlement, and recordkeeping are what decide whether your token behaves like a financial product or just sits there as a token.
Issuance is the easy half.